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IDLEWILD FIREWISE ESSESNTALS
Firewise Committee (Ad Hoc) 2016:
Initiator & Grant Expert – Paul Fahrenthold, ex-President, IWCC
Firewise Representative – Frank Ray, 512-809-9979,
frankray@swbell.net
IWCC President – Maxi Millican, (817) 988-1409,
maxitoo@swbell.net
Volunteer – Joan Hart, (925) 708-7077,
joanhart1912@att.net
IWCC Caretaker – Frank Dodge, (575) 377-3335,
frank_dodge@hotmail.com
New Mexico OFFICIALS:
New Mexico State Forester
– Arnie Friedt, (505) 376-2204
New Mexico Firewise Liaison
(receives the committee’s annual report)–
Micaela Hester
Internet Resources:
Idlewild website
–
www.idlewildcommunity.org
Webmaster, Craig Sutton,
csutton@idlewildcommunity.org. This is our community’s
main information center.
Digital (PDF) files of
Fall and Spring “IDLE TIMES” newsletters are archived here, as are
PDF map images of our area. Many useful forms for IWCC members are
available via links on the home page.
Facebook Groups –
Idlewild Community, NM and Idlewild Friends.
Digital Idlewild
– The IWCC Board of Directors intends to make more effective use of
the internet for distributing information. The heart of this effort
is a user-managed set of Idlewild email addresses serviced by the
mass email server “MailChimp.” We ask all IWCC members to click on
the big green button on the
Idlewild website’s home page under “Join
our Mailing list” and register or re-register a valid email
address. This enables messages sent through MailChimp to reach all
who have subscribed. As a registrant you have complete control over
your email record. Eventually, as the community gains internet
competence, US Mail costs will be greatly
reduced.
Firewise Communities website
– http://firewise.org
This is the home page for Firewise Communities. As of 2015
the section “For Active
Firewise Communities” is relevant to Idlewild, containing
articles helpful to the organization of events, volunteers, and
activities germane to fire-risk reduction. All of
the Firewise committee’s reporting to the state liaison will
be handled through the internet.
Data Collection
– Until further notice, the Firewise Representative will compile a
list of Firewise activities for each year and email an annual report
to the New Mexico Firewise Liaison. The deadline for collecting
activity data on our end is November 1.
NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) –
This page can be found by clicking on “About
Firewise” at the top of
http://Firewise.org.
NFPA is a global, nonprofit organization devoted to eliminating
death, injury, and property and economic loss due to fire,
electrical, and related hazards. It is the parent organization for
Firewise Communities.
Reporting Firewise Activities
– Document your time and effort in Firewise-related work. Each year,
your Firewise Committee must demonstrate a level of effort equal to
at least $2 per capita in the community. You can track volunteer
hours (worth $23.56 /hr. as of April 2016), count grants you've
received, or list the value of in-kind services, hired help, or
loaned equipment.
If it’s Firewise work, it
counts!
For your property, include the following (numbers are totals for
the year):
1. Name and Idlewild property address
2. Volunteers – number
of individual volunteers who did Firewise work on your property.
3. Volunteer-hours
(Vol-H) – total number of volunteer-hours
4. Dollar amount of
grants, in-kind services, hired help, and loaned equipment,
if any.
By telephone: Frank Ray, 512-809-9979 (mobile)
By email:
frankray@SWBELL.NET
By US Mail: c/o Frank Ray, 8703 Granada Hills Drive, Austin, TX
78737
By personal contact: speak with Frank Dodge or Frank Ray who will
record your numbers
Read the August 2013 Idlewild Fiorewise Community Assessment
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